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Liwei Lin and Peisheng He’s Bakar Fellows Project Featured in Ars Technica
The project, “A safe and deformable Lithium-Ion Battery That Can Self-Repair," was published in Science Advanced and featured in media outlets such as Ars Technica and IEEE Spectrum.
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Two Berkeley professors receive prestigious Guggenheim fellowships
Bakar Fellow and chemical engineer Markita Landry will try to find molecules in little-studied plants that could treat neurological disorders.
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Bakar Fellow James Olzmann Awarded 2025 Beatriz Manz Award
Bakar Fellow James Olzmann recently received the Beatriz Manz Award, given to faculty recently promoted to full professor. He is among the seven faculty awarded the 2025 L&S Faculty Awards.
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Wearable sweat sensor can track your hydration status during physical and mental activities
Bakar Fellow Ali Javey and his team of Innovation Fellows and Ignite Scholars are developing wearable sweat sensors that can track your hydration status.
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Seven faculty members named fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Bakar Fellow Phil Messersmith was named among the newest cohort of AAAS Fellows. The 471 new AAAS fellows announced today (March 27) were recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching and technology to administration in academia, industry and government to excellence in communicating to and interpreting science for the public.
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UC Berkeley engineers create world’s smallest wireless flying robot
“Bees exhibit remarkable aeronautical abilities, such as navigation, hovering and pollination, that artificial flying robots of similar scale fail to do,” said Liwei Lin, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. “This flying robot can be wirelessly controlled to approach and hit a designated target, mimicking the mechanism of pollination as a bee collects nectar and flies away.”
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Dan Klein on The New York Times: How Artificial Intelligence Reasons
In an interview with The New York Times, Bakar Fellow Dan Klein explains how AI tools like ChatGPT are capable of "reasoning."
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